Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.
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We have very primitive emotions,” he said . “It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though.
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A continent ages quickly once we come. The natives live in harmony with it. But the foreigner destroys, cuts down the trees, drains the water, so that the water supply is altered, and in a short time the soil, once the sod is turned under, is cropped out and, next, it starts to blow away as it has blown away in every old country and as I had seen it start to blow in Canada. The earth gets tired of being exploited.
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wonder what day god created the egg' 'how should we know? we should not question. our stay on earth is not for long. let us rejoice and believe and give thanks'. 'eat a egg
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You're awfully dark, brother," he said. "You don't know how dark.
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Everyone has his own conscience, and there should be no rules about how a conscience should function.
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He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out.
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No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.
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Isn't it pretty to think so.
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If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.
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Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.
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When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write.
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It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people.
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There are worse places to be than on your own.
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All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is.
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Ronda is the place where to go, if you are planning to travel to Spain for a honeymoon or for being with a girlfriend. The whole city and its surroundings are a romantic set. ... Nice promenades, good wine, excellent food, nothing to do.
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My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.
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The shortest answer is doing the thing.
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When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you. . . . Then when you are badly wounded the first time you lose that illusion and you know it can happen to you. After being severely wounded two weeks before my nineteenth birthday I had a bad time until I figured out that nothing could happen to me that had not happened to all men before me. Whatever I had to do men had always done. If they had done it then I could do it too and the best thing was not to worry about it.
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Most people never listen.
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For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.
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First, there must be talent. . .Then there must be discipline. . .Then there must be. . .and absolute conscience. . .to prevent faking.
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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
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Everybody has something wrong with them.